I have a friend who is part of a sizeable group of friends who I see periodically and saw this weekend and who is a fucking excellent guy and adored by everyone but while struggling manfully in his company this weekend I realised just how different we are as people (general loudness/lack thereof, sense of humour, things we like to talk about), and that he doesn't seem to feel altogether comfortable sround me either, and how much I kind of prefer it on these occasions when he isn't around.
But he IS a friend and has never been anything other than excellent to me and is held in the highest esteem by plenty of people that I hold in the highest esteem. Clearly I have made no mention of this to either him or any of the mutual friends, but is this situation more common that I assume or am I being a dick and if so how to remedy this?
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)